Store fixture



Oct. 2, 1928. 1,686,291

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J. P. MOORE STORE FIXTURE Oct. 2, 1928.

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UNITED STATES FATE.

ACOB P. MOORE, F MOALLEN, TEXAS.

STORE FIXTURE.

Application filed .Tanuary 7, 1928. Serial No. 245,184.

This invention relates to store fixtures and more particularly to a combined shelf and bin cabinet.

An important object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be readily assembled and disassembled and may be shipped knocked down, so that the space necessary is considerably reduced and shipping costs lessened.

1 A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the various parts may be held in assembled relation by means of a single centrally disposed securing element.

A still further object of the invention is the production of a device of this character composed of a plurality of superimposed shelves and partition elements which maintain the shelves in spaced relation, the partition elements being of such character that they may be readily held against accidental displacement and each element serves to define a bin or storage compartment and one wall of a second bin.

A further object of the invention is to produce a device of this character which is readily adaptable to changes in design.

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a store fixture constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view therethrough;

Figure, 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the partition forming elements;

Figure 5 is a detail sectional view showing the engagement of the lugs with the partition elements.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the numeral 10 generally designates a base plate which is provided centrally with a threaded opening 11 receiving the lower end of :1 preferably tubular standard 12. The base plate 10 may be supported by castered legs 13 or in any other suitable manner. Superimposed upon the plate 10 are shelf plates 14, each having an opening for the passage of the standard 12. The plates 14 maybe of any suitable size and in the present instance, I have shown the plate 14 immediately above the base plate 10 as being of substantially the same size as the base plate 10, while the remaining plates are of a common and lesser size. The partitions and separators each comprise an angularly bent plate 15 adapted to rest at its lower edge upon the base plate 10 or plate 14 and at its upper edge to support a plate 14. The end edges 16 of the plate may either be vertical where the plates engaged by the upper and lower edges are of the same size or angularly disposed, as indicated, where the plates 14 engaged are of dif ferent sizes. The arms 17 of the plate may either extend entirely to the outer edges of the shelf formingplates 10 or 14 or may terminate inwardly of such edges, as desired. In the illustration I have shown both forms of this construction, the base plate 10 being shown as extended beyond the edges 16 of the partitions, while the plates 14 coincide at their edges with the edges oi the partitions. The projecting ledge 18 produced at the periphery of the plate 10 may be employed as a seat for an annulus 19 forming the outer wall of bins 20 formed between the arms of each partition and between adjacent arms of adjacent partitions. Anysuitable means may be employed to hold the partitions 15 in their proper positions. In the present illustration, the plates 10 and 14 are each shown as havin lugs 21 at their inner faces which are dispose adjacent the openings thereof and are adapted to engage interiorly of the angle of the arms 17 and adjacent their outer edges with lugs 22 for coaction with the free ends of the arms.

A cap 23 is provided for the standard 12, which preferably takes the form of a base for a lighting fixture 24. This cap. when screwed down upon the upper end of the standard, engages the uppermost plate 14. forcing it 1 downwardly toward the ase and clamps the stacked shelf forming plates and partition plates to one another, so that displacement 100 thereof is impossible. While the device has been illustrated as being circular in form, it will, of course, be understood'that it may be constructed in the form of a polygon and obviously any suitable material can be employed in its construction.

Since the construction hereinbefore set forth is capable of a certain range of change means at the upper end of the standard for forcing the shelf forming plates longitudinally of the standard to thereby clamp them upon the partition forming plates, at least one of said shelf forming plates having its edge extended beyond the outer edge of the arms of the coacting partition forming plates to thereby provide a ledge and an annulus seated upon said ledge and forming the outer wall of bin compartments provided between adjacent arms of the partition forming plates and between the arms of adjacent partition forming plates.

2. A store fixture comprising a plurality of stacked shelf forming plates each having a central aperture, a standard secured'in the lowermost plate and extending upwardly through the apertures of the remaining plates, V-shaped partitionplates arranged etween adj acnt shelf forming plates and having the apices thereof abutting the standard, means at the upper end of the standard for forcing the shelf forming plates longitudinally of the standard to thereby clamp them, upon the and forming the outer wall of bin compartments the side wal s of which are formed by said partition forming plates.

3. A store fixture comprising aplurality of stacked shelf forming plates each having a central aperture, a standard secured in the lowermost plate and extending upwardly through the apertures of the remaining plates, V-shaped partition plates arranged between adjacent shelf forming plates and having the apices thereof abutting the standard, and means at the upper end of the standard for forcing the shelf forming plates longitudinally of the standard to thereby clamp them upon the partition forming plates, each shelf having upon each face thereof adjacent to the edge of the opening a lug for each of the associated partition plates and adapted to engage in the re-entrant angle of the plate,

each shelf being further provided adjacent its periphery upon its upper andlower faces with spaced lugs ada ted to engage the outer faces of the arms 0 the partition forming plates to prevent oscillatory movement of the plates.

In testimony whereof Ihereunto aifix my signature.

JACOB P. MOORE. 

